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contempt
[ kuhn-tempt ]
noun
- the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- the state of being despised; dishonor; disgrace.
- Law.
- willful disobedience to or open disrespect for the rules or orders of a court contempt of court or legislative body.
- an act showing such disrespect.
contempt
/ əˈɛ /
noun
- the attitude or feeling of a person towards a person or thing that he considers worthless or despicable; scorn
- the state of being scorned; disgrace (esp in the phrase hold in contempt )
- wilful disregard of or disrespect for the authority of a court of law or legislative body
contempt of court
Other Word Forms
- -Dz·ٱ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of contempt1
Idioms and Phrases
see familiarity breeds contempt .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
"The very idea that the FA can disregard the Supreme Court shows a foolhardy contempt for the law. Every passing day makes it worse" he said.
Or the journalist does not reveal their source, is held in contempt of court, and goes to jail.
District Judge James E. Boasberg, who threatened to hold White House officials in contempt of court for not following his earlier orders to stop a plane carrying deportees to an El Salvador prison midflight.
“How much contempt is stirred up at times toward the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants!” he said in his Easter address, shortly before his death.
A separate feud has been brewing after a judge said he could hold the Trump administration in contempt for its "wilful disregard" of his order barring deportation flights.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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